Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Not particularly.

Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan suffered total defeat and occupation. Russia will not. That is a point of difference.

But the overall point is that countries that had odious regimes can be turned into countries that make a positive contribution to human existence on this planet. They just need help and incentives.

I hope he gets nothing. It's disgusting really. Would like to see the other countries give up on Hungary, try to get Poland on side to strip their voting rights and then they can be ignored, and the new sanctions "packages" can go through.

The veto on such matters is a curse on the EU also. It is becoming more unsustainable as EU grows in size, and also the environment surrounding the EU members in the wider world seems to get more hostile each year, and needs agile decisions at that level.

It's not the 90s or 00s any more, that is for sure.

We cannot get back into the weeds of equivocation, here. Russia behave far worse than the USA do, and Eastern Europe's aversion to coming back under the Russian sphere of influence should be taken as testament to this fact. I'll take the U.S. helping keep that at bay all day long even if they're doing other things I don't agree with, like propping up Saudi Arabia or the subjugation of Palestinians. The U.S.'s hegemony is vastly better to be under than the current alternatives on offer. China and Russia can F off away with themselves. The amount of insidious influence they already have in the West is bad enough.

The days of occupation is over realistically but what will happen to Russia will be far worse complete isolation from the rest of the world and hatred for there people.

And tbh it's well deserved

Even hardcore pro-Russian military bloggers losing patience and demanding answers regarding their military, especially the river crossing disasters (NYT article linked in the tweet)

The yanks are far better and far more reasonable than alternatives like Russia and china I'm glad they are the world power and not vice versa because we would be far worse off for it.

As for Europe stepping up and militarizing not likely there is no patriotism towards Europe by the nations under the flag if it stopped being a benefit most nations would leave it. Like it or lump it the yanks are the best we ve got in terms of world order.

Like a really sh1t Avengers…

Ah, the DC version.

If anything I would say the Sony Spiderverse…..

The problem Ukraine will have even if they managed to kick Russia all the way out is they need peace with Russia. If Russia don't come around to some sort of peace talks etc. with Ukraine there won't be much international investment of foreign companies going into Ukraine and setting up shop. All Russia has to keep on doing is say lobbying in 2 or 3 cruise missiles or rockets every day at specific targets. Say for example if Apple or the likes set up a massive industrial complex and said would hire a few thousand Ukrainians and pumped say a billion into this being constructed and then near opening day a Russian cruise missile or a few Russian missiles slam into it and destroy it and same happens on another international company who invested after Russia was fully kicked out. No other foreign companies would invest in Ukraine that way so its a massive deal for Ukraine to eventually come to some sort of peace with Russia as the way I look at it Russia are fucked for probably 20 years after this so if there being isolated and no foreign investment allowed etc into there they might say **** it let's keep this up against Ukraine, fair enough they might have no troops left in Ukraine but if there planes and cruise missiles etc. can still lob stuff hundreds of miles inside Russia Ukraine will not ever be able to properly rebuild over this and foreign companies will not invest there for the same reason.

The Ukrainians never stop impressing me. They are cleaning up and rebuilding almost the second they get into any of their reclaimed territory.

Poland is in the east...and yes it was attacked by the Soviet Union as well.

Thanks for reminding me.

Russian people must surely be wondering why after near 3 months that they have not taken Luhansk and Donetsk. And especially why they still haven't taken Mariupol.